Duties of Children. tint° hissa, why art thou, being the Icings Son, leave from day to clay, wilt thou not tell me ? lie perceived the countenance of Amn' n much de;e &ted, and looks tidily upon forrow of heart, ayd,üaith he,tf by art thou thus being a Kings Son ? It's f }range being a Kings Son, that thou fliouldeit be fo dejected in thy fyirits bait not thou enough that belongs to thee,to.Comfort 'thyheart, when thou art a Kings Son ? O, fo it fhould be with 'the Sons of the living Got{ ; Doefl thou beleeve .that thou . art a. child of God, that God bath Adopted thee, and fet his heart upon thee as a child, O why doth the want of foine few outward Comforts deject thee ? - , You Will fay, If I were the child of God, .God would not let me want thefe things. - -- O thou art inif aken in this ; God had] other manner of bleflìngs to let forth his Fatherly love to thee in, then t'nefe. Outward things.'A child that is tick and weak, might fay as well, If my Father lov'd me,why will he not give me fuch and fuch meare, why the child hath need of.Phytiick. Now doth not thou love thy child when chou giv'flhim Phyfick, and not what he cryes for : If God be thy Father, and thou his child, wilt not thou give God leave to nutter thee his child, as he gives thee leave to nunl ti,ine ovine child. Yea let use fay more to thee then thus ; Thou mayeft notwithflanding.. thy being without outward Comforts, thou mayeft have the lame Fatherly love that Jens Chrifl his Son had, and will nor that ferve thy turne ; .--- You will fay,Thar will ferve indeed° Mask in the 17 fah: 26 v. And I have declared unto them thy Hanle, and will declare it , that the lave wherewith thou haft le- ved me may be in 'hem, and I in them. Now mark, how did the love of Cod work towards Jefus Chrif} hi, Son ? Did he not let him be without many outward Comforts in this world ? There was a time that he wati in hunger, and wanted bread; and then the.Devill world have had him diflruf}ed in his Fa- ther : Oh no, Though e Foxes had holes, and the birds of the a. re had netts, yet he had not a hole to h: %de his head in. Thou lull as good a Cottage to dwell in as Chrifl had;Chrif} he was thirfly, and he was faine'to beg a little water of a woman to drink,
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